Publications
Writings on Technique
Standing Down Straight®
If you’ve been taught that to be strong, confident, or beautiful is by “standing up straight,” Jump Rhythm® Technique will be a shock.
Performing Energy
“Not a bad thing, independence, which is what hooked many of us on art in the first place.”
The Art of Misbehaving
“We have this peculiarly human stuff inside us that needs to get pushed to the outside of us, […] to
announce what we think or feel, […]”
Choreographing in the Classic Jazz Tradition
“Astaire is the model for transforming the entire body into a jazz instrument.”
Writings About the Company
The Tightrope Doesn’t Matter When You’re Already Down
“Downwardness leads to inwardness,” Siegenfeld emphasizes. “The downwardness is a physical thing, but the inwardness is spiritual.”
A Musician’s View of Jump Rhythm® Technique
“It made our dancers here perform every movement with rhythmic clarity, physical power, and an infectiously joyous, fun sense of being alive.”
All The Things You Are: JRJP in Rhode Island
Swingin’ Engineers
“[…] ‘whole brain engineering,’ is really whole-body engineering – the experience that engineers really have an opportunity to connect more with the physical […]”
Dance Professor Connects Physics to “Innate” Rhythm
Understanding the bonds between the physical and the mental is important for everyone, whether you’re an engineer or a professional performer.
Jump Rhythm®’s 25th Anniversary
The dancer combines two different rhythms into a unity that “allows each to have its own say.”